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KTDJ 010CD
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The Eyes In The Heat is a project of Oliver Ho and Zizi Kanaan. The combination of Oliver's ultra-crisp, angular techno and Zizi's vocals, their swampy approach to post-punk heritage, their lo-fi but intricate use of electronics, blues and acid house, these are grooves that lock you in but leave room for melodies -- an ultra-tight production that manages to avoid feeling sanitized. Here's some club music that is not afraid to show its farm-dog teeth. Oliver brings a lot of his electronic techno influences into the band, but there is a wider vision here that explores the borders between the avant-garde pop music of Laurie Anderson and the electronic experiments of Brian Eno. There is a desire to fuse the contrasting ideas of dark machine music, the lyrical presence of Zizi as a singer and a writer and the live drums of Jerome Tcherneyan (long-time drummer in Piano Magic). The result is a unique mix of both sonic ideas and human song writing. ProgramME is an ambitious record, multi-directional but with its two feet standing firm in its own backyard. This is intimate electronics projected on a very big screen, a mix (harmonica and an Rn'B tinge?) that works because it dares.
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KTDJ 023EP
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Amateur shows exactly what The Eyes In The Heat are all about. "Techno with guitars" is a tricky ball game, but here's some club music that is not afraid to show its teeth. The "Dark Dub" mix strips the black leather right to the skin. The Southern bayou element inherent to The Eyes In The Heat comes alive on "I Used To Be Spanish" and "Hold Up" is an Italo cowboy ride. Hypnotics and dissonance? Raw vocals and old-school drum machines? Yep.
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